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Today's Word "lubricious"

Lustful or lewd on

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lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\ (adjective) - 1 : Lustful; lewd. 2 : Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination. 3 : Having a slippery or smooth quality.

"Now, having sloughed His old skin, glistening with youth, he puffs out His breast and slides his lubricious coils Toward the sun, flicking his three-forked tongue." -- Virgil, 'Aeneid'

 

Lubricious derives from Latin lubricus, "slippery, smooth."


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